Originally Posted by
southernfox
Question for officials.
I pulled a pedal immediately in my 500m TT start today (but because I was so heavily strapped in, my foot was still 'on' the pedal but sacrificed 200w and had a garbage time.
Could I have just stopped/slow-rolled and got a restart?
No restart. You would have had to actually pull your shoe out of the pedal for a restart, and even, then, maybe "crash". I had the exact same thing happen on three separate occasions and only got a restart when I had broken a strap, as that was classified as an equipment failure.